Example sentences of "[vb base] i [vb past] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Extract 2 oh listen I wanted to tell you one of the girls in my supply class we 'll hoover when we come back wo n't we she said to me she looked at my shoes and she said you 've got flashy shoes or something I said I got them in Spain she said Miss are you Spanish I thought it was really funny
2 I did have c a hysterectomy but er because there was a l malignant growth , so whether in you know I 'd done anything all those years and yet it did n't affect , you know it makes you wonder does n't it ?
3 when I , I was staying out late at night , I was going against my mother , every word she said it was wrong you know I wanted to do my own thing and
4 I think I had found my spiritual home .
5 ‘ I think I needed to feel my own pain again . ’
6 ‘ I wish I 'd liked her better , ’ Anne said .
7 Wish I 'd met her ten , twenty years ago when I could still pass as a red-blooded male .
8 A lot of women write and say I wish I 'd met you 20 years ago .
9 I wish I 'd got my woolly hat .
10 It 's just that I wish I 'd got my wretched memory back some other way . ’
11 I wish I had known her better .
12 I wish I had shown her more affection , although I did spend a lot of time collecting scraps of sheep 's wool off the barbed wire for her to put round her corns .
13 As I looked up into his steely blue eyes I admit I did wonder what disparaging thoughts he was thinking about me .
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